Leonid Utyosov
Known for Acting
Born March 20, 1895
Died March 9, 1982
Place of Birth Odessa, Odesskiy uyezd, Khersonskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Leonid Osipovich Utyosov or Utesov (Russian: Леони́д О́сипович Утёсов); real name Lazar (Leyzer) Iosifovich Vaysbeyn or Weissbein (Russian: Ла́зарь (Ле́йзер) Ио́сифович Вайсбе́йн) (21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1895, Odessa – 9 March 1982, Moscow), was a famous Soviet jazz singer and comic actor of Jewish origin, who became the first pop singer to be awarded the prestigious title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1965.
Filmography
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
1976
as Himself
Jolly Fellows
1934
as Kostya Potekhin
The Career of Spirka Shpandyr
1926
as Spirka Shpandyr
Variety Stars
1954
Old Record
1982
as Archive voice footage
How It Was Done in Odesa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite!
1991
as archiveFootage
Concert on the Screen
1940
I Am Returning Your Portrait
1983
as himself (archive)
Arkadiy Raykin
1975
as Self
Concert for the Front
1942
as Self
Мелодии Дунаевского
1963
Memories of the "Cow March"
1991
as (archive footage)
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Чужие
1926
as Red soldier Egorov
The Life and Death of Lieutenant Schmidt
1917
as Zarudniy